Pregnancy Update

Well I am a little behind on the blogging thing. I really did have every intention of taking weekly pictures to keep up with my growing belly, but that obviously didn't happen haha. So we'll start from the beginning.  I found out I was pregnant on January 27th. I didn't really feel very sick beforehand at all. The week after though, I was only eating crackers and drinking gingerale. Then the funniest thing happened after 5 or so days of that and I was suddenly not sick anymore. So that was amazing and made things so so much easier. I really do feel for people who get terrible morning sickness. I am amazed they can hide it! The only inconvenience I have felt during this time has been serious heartburn! It started around Easter and has been an issue since. It slowed down a little bit towards the end of my second trimester, but is back full force. I am downing TUMS as much as I am allowed every day.
In other big baby news..... We are having a BOY!! We are very excited! We found out on April 18th. It was kind of funny how it all happened. The week we got back from our trip to Europe, we had a wedding reception to go to. We ran into one of our friends from BYU and she told us she was in school and needed pregnant people to come in and get free ultrasounds. Our doctor's appointment to find out the sex of the baby wasn't until the first week of May so we were happy to go in and see if they could tell. Sure enough they could and it is a boy! The instructor that was in the room kept calling it "Mr. Winky" so we were dying haha. There is just something a little awkward about that nickname don't you think?
Here are some pictures documenting the growing belly. I don't remember the exact dates they were taken but mostly in May and June.

Natalie and me after finding out we are having a boy!

This is at a Colorado Rockies when we went out to visit Becky and Ryan. I was about 24 weeks.

This is at my baby shower in Arizona with Kaitlin. I was roughly 25 weeks here and I beleive she was 38ish weeks. She had her cute baby boy less than 2 weeks later

This is a sign right in front of our grocery store in the best parking spot. This is one reason I am loving Ohio.

England and Italy

We had such an amazing opportunity to go over to Europe for a couple weeks with my family to celebrate Jamie's graduation! We started the trip off in England where we visited Trent's best friend Bradford at Oxford for a few days.  Then we spent 10 days in Italy.  5 days in Rome and 5 days in Florence. We also took day trains over to Pompeii, Pisa, and Venice.  Sorry for the picture overload.  Trent discovered a new hobby while we were there and took over 1600 pictures over the 2 weeks!!! So this is a VERY condensed version of the pictures we have.

This was one of our first stops around Oxford.  Do you recognize it? It is the dining hall from Harry Potter! My Harry Potter dreams were coming true. I was happy it was even set up like the movie was!

This is Trent "punting" around Oxford.  Pretty much you stick a pole in the river and guide the boat that way.  I had the biggest struggle, but Trent was a natural.

We went over to Stonehenge one afternoon.  It was cool to see but in all honesty, I don't think I'll ever go back.  If you've seen a picture of it before you have seen all there is to see haha. 

This was at the Tower of London with the Tower Bridge in the background.

Bradford, Megan, me and Trent posing for the 4th or 5th time to get this picture.  We had a bit of a struggle finding someone who was camera savvy enough to take this for us. 

 Big Ben

Westminster Abbey

My Royal Wedding dreams came true too when we saw where the Royal party was during the production.

Here is the countdown to the Olympics in London this summer.  This was in front of the British National museum in Trafalgar Square.

This was in front of Buckingham Palace.  

We had a great opportunity to go to the London temple before we left.  The grounds are probably my favorite out of any temple I've seen before.  

 So long England! We're heading to Rome!

We met up with my family and flew down to Rome together from England.  This is Jamie and me in front of the entrance to the Vatican.

 

Trent and me in front of a statue of Moses.

The Pieta

Trent inside of St. Peter's Cathedral.  Such an amazing place! There was pure gold all over the place!

The whole gang inside the cathedral.

St. Peter's Square

The Pantheon

 Looking out over the Forum.

 An inside look at the Coliseum

 Just a funny little picture of us all inside the Coliseum again

 Jamie was getting bored with the regular smiling pictures so we tried to change it up a bit

 Trevi Fountain

 Hanging with Grandma in St. Peter's Square

 Pompeii

 The Spanish Steps

 At the top of the Duomo in Florence

Galileo's tomb

Michael Angelo's tomb

Grandma and me in Pisa!

The leaning tower of Pisa

We went to the Galileo museum in Florence and they definitely had 2 of his fingers and one of his teeth on display. Pretty fascinating but also a little weird.

 Riding through Venice on the water bus

The Rialto bridge

We loved Italy and look forward to visiting again someday!